Comments on cooking, buying food and eating.

I have been in high spirits since I moved into my new house for a month, and I have invited guests home for dinner almost every week. As a kitchen girl, I started to wear an apron and learn a dish every week. More times, I feel that cooking is also a kind of practice and an opportunity for growth, depending on how you look at it.

First, practice deliberate practice.

I think I used to cook occasionally, and when I cook, I almost always use my subconscious mind to play freely according to my mother's memory. I don't know how to cook and how much seasoning to add, so it's not difficult to swallow, but it's really not delicious. Therefore, you need to practice deliberately.

1, jump out of the comfort zone. Let go of the immature cooking experience before, cook once a week, and face the menu before you know that there are many skills in cooking. Of course, you can play freely after you are proficient, but in the early stage of learning cooking, some basic skills can still be practiced clearly.

2. Repeat the exercise. After a week, I don't remember how to cook the food I learned last week. Now it is time to review and consolidate.

3. Share and give feedback. Thanks to the witty friend's feedback, this dish is short of oil and that fish was bought by mistake. It would be better to add some hot oil before steaming, cut onions into pieces, and so on. Every time, on the basis of feedback, I continue to improve in the next step, and I feel quite fulfilled.

Second, face the true self.

When I cooked with a show-off attitude, as a woman who never cooked, I felt quite complacent when I invited my friends to my home to surprise me. There is such a sentence in a forwarded article that "women cook, not to please their husbands and family, but to make life better." Because cooking itself is an art. "Well, this sentence sounds beautiful, because I especially hate that every time Po cooks, people say, Oh, I can be a good wife and mother. I'm not a tool, okay? However, on the other hand, unlike many girlfriends, they really regard cooking as an art and an interest, take it seriously and try to find out how to cook better dishes. I just regard cooking as a skill and do it as carelessly as usual. One day, when cooking, I added less oil and continued to add oil directly to the dish. I have done this kind of thing many times, but once, my heart thumped. Is this the way I treat things? So hasty, so reckless, so careless, when I think about it later, it really seems to be true. In my works, although on the whole, I can always smell a little carelessness and coping. Do things without heart. At that time, I really felt wronged for my food. Therefore, I will pay attention next time, know and feel myself as much as possible, and see if I can do better.

Third, accept your imperfections.

Beginner cooking? Looking at a table of food, there is always an impulse to make friends at first, just like a child. Look, I learned a new skill. Come and praise me. At the beginning, I always got full praise and a sense of accomplishment. Slowly, with the increase of the number of Po pictures and the increase of dishes, different voices appeared slowly. This dish is not cooked like this. This fish can't be steamed like this. This dish has to be like this. Who told you that? At first, I was particularly embarrassed and embarrassed. I don't think such a poor work can be shown off, trying to defend myself. But with such a voice in your heart, have you started to defend yourself? You are running away from something, so you adjust your mentality and face it bravely. You find that most of your friends are harmless, but you think too much. Top students from small to large are most afraid of making mistakes and imperfections in others' minds, and this moment is an excellent opportunity for me to face myself. Therefore, the Po diagram is no longer to show off, but to calm the heart and face your own imperfections. Whether you say it or not, whether it is good or bad, I will go my own way. This is probably the biggest gain from learning to cook ~